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Kotaku Originals: Hot Fun in the Summertime
This will be the first time I've ever worked on Crecentral Time, as I'm in Colorado hanging with Kotaku alum Adam Barenblat for the weekend. It's also a shortened two days thanks to July 4. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by Derek Rumpler: I'll probably be in my room drowning my sorrows into a game of Bonesaw. Girlfriend and I broke up Tuesday.... 7 Responses | Other threads
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Kotaku Originals: The Beer Frame
We learned some important lessons about the physical world this week, notably that Fallout sees no difference between a tall frosty cold one and a device used to rip out nosehairs. Yes, unbeatable refreshment. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by Esper mind tricks: I'd give a truckload of tweezers for a bottle of beer, right about now :( 11 Responses | Other threads
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Kotaku Originals: Bustin' Makes Me Feel ...
Sunday to Monday saw three separate references to Ray Parker Jr's quasi-orgasmic catchphrase in the refrain of the Ghostbusters theme. Can I make it four in a week? Oh hell yes I can! More »
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By Owen GoodComment by namesRhard: Please, for the love of God, no more inane Ghostbusters references! 10 Responses | Other threads
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Kotaku Originals: Extra Innings
The past week was like E3 went seven days into overtime, as everyone emptied their reporters' notebooks from their time in L.A. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by GeluAnimus: Even with the E3 being over, I think i still haven't got over it. Still feeling that sorrow of watching... 7 Responses | Other threads
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Five Good Breakup Games
Breaking up is hard to do, but video games can help. Here are five 2009 titles that'll get you through the five stages of grief. More »
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By AJ GlasserComment by FarmboyinJapan: Well, my breakup game was Metal Gear 4. Two days before the most anticipated game of all time was released, my... 20 Responses | Other threads
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Kotaku Originals: But Wait, There's More!
E3 week delivered a deluge of stories, previews, impressions, hands-on, live blogs and well, just coverage, but that doesn't mean the flood stops here. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by Nassin: I'm very interested in playing the new splinter cell but I will say I'm a little depressed that Sam doesn't... 9 Responses | Other threads
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E3: The Great Walk- Off Results
Last week we polled you, our readers, to see which of the writers covering E3 you thought would walk the most during the show. The results? I won by a landslide, with McWhertor getting the least votes. More »
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Kotaku Originals: Esto es un Robo
Manos arriba, who loves robots? We sure did this week. Other highlights included the return (of sorts) of Atari, and Hideo Kojima giving us all lessons in redacting sensitive documents. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by Heliophage: Wouldn't it be este es? I thought you only used "esto" when you didn't know if the noun was masculine... 12 Responses | Other threads
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Kotaku Originals: Swine Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A damned newsy week deserves a huge roundup: Capcom chickened out over pigs, and Fallout 3's DLC is at last coming to PS3. If nothing else, it neuters some clichéd flamebait from Fallout 3 comments. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by Mike Out: Was a great week, slow but good buildup for E3, can't wait. Meanwhile I'll entertain myself by playing the inFAMOUS... 8 Responses | Other threads
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Kotaku Originals: Lawsuits, PETA and the NPDs
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Kotaku Originals: Two Turntables and a Microphone
DJ Hero's turntable controller twittered out this week, later confirmed by Activision and compared (by your humble editors) with the Scratch controller. We also turned Stephen Totilo loose on a terrorized games industry. More » -
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Namco Bandai Editors Day Round-Up
Namco Bandai Editors Day kicked off with the announcement of both Soulcalibur and Tekken games for the PSP – and it was all pretty much gravy from there.
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By AJ GlasserComment by Akisazame: No mention of Tales games, huh? I'm not very optimistic about Tales of Vesperia for the PS3 or for Tales of... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Kotaku Originals: The Count of Monte Carlo
Man, how bad ass would it have been for Crecente to show up in Monte Carlo behind the wheel of a Monte Carlo? Capcom should have given these cars as swag. Hell, GM's going bankrupt. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by GerrywithaG: yea i drive a '99 monte carlo, ...yea im badass :p 6 Responses | Other threads
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Kotaku Originals: If It Ain't Broken, We Break It
Let's recap a week slam-slap full of breaking news that got the gamer gums a-flappin'. Fallout Vegas? We was there. Lego Rock Band? Done tole you about it. The biggie? Stephen Totilo, newly minted editor-mans. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by Werrick: Hey, Owen, can you help me out with something? As someone who's never watched MTV a day in his life, can... 13 Responses | Other threads
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What AJ Learned About Machinima Law Today
Today kicks off Stanford University's Play Machinima Law Conference with panels of machinima artists, copyright lawyers and legal representatives from Blizzard, EA and Microsoft. More »
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By AJ GlasserComment by aw3str1k3r: Thinking about Machinima just me remember Portal, from the early days of G4. I loved that show. 3 Responses | Other threads
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Kotaku Originals: Number Crunch
It was numbers week in Kotakopolis, which means things like NPD and E74 ("It's 71 better than E3!"). Also 2009, as Fahey looked at the year that was yet to be in gaming. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by Alibyebye Essmob: Math is not Kotaku's strong point. I think he meant to say it's better by 71 points, or something,... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Kotaku Originals: Knuckleheaded
Possession of illegal weapons might be a class 1 misdemeanor. Sending them out as swag, especially for a company like Electronic Arts, is a grade-A f***-up. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by LllusionX:Proud Commander of the Sony Attack Force Helghan!: I wonder why anybody would accept said brass knuckles in the first place. If somebody's going to get in trouble,... 14 Responses | Other threads
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Prototype Preview: My Type of Game
The last thing Prototype is trying to be is a modern day version of Assassin's Creed set in Liberty City, so stop making those comparisons right now. More »
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By AJ GlasserComment by Archaotic: Still think this game is going to be worth renting, but it'll likely grow stale and shallow before the end.... 48 Responses | Other threads
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Kotaku Originals: April's News
Before the Internet, we didn't have April Fool's Day. When we played a joke, we'd tell a guy his shoe was untied and then WHAM! bash him upside the head with a piece of firewood. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by Stru: "Before the Internet, we didn't have April Fool's Day." Um, actually we did...actually we have had April fools day for quite... 15 Responses | Other threads
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Kotaku Originals: GDC Overload
This is when the gig starts to scare me, because there were forty-leb'm-million billion things coming out of GDC this week, and somehow I'm supposed to follow that act. Let's start with an originals roundup. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by eddienoteddy: I love weekends for one reason. OWEN!! 3 Responses | Other threads
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Kotaku Originals: Midas Touch
Give yourselves a big hand and take a victory lap. Our determined grassroots campaign - that, or Paramount seeing some no-brainer DLC to hype Transformers 2 - succeeded in getting "The Touch" on Guitar Hero. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by monkeysaresilly: Wow, that CHUD article made me positively livid. I especially enjoy how he lays accusations and generalizations upon of... 16 Responses | Other threads
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Kotaku Originals: Up Your Nose With a Rubber Hose
Kinda presumptuous to welcome myself back, but, I don't see anyone else doing it. Anyway, it's nice to be missed. I was missed, right? More » -
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Kotaku Originals: Punch Out and PSP
Significant announcements for the PSP and Nintendo led the charge this week. Buzz about a UMD-less PSP almost outshone word of major titles releasing on Sony's handheld and Ninty's upcoming catalog. The week in originals: More » -
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Kotaku Originals: DS-Hi!
Ninty's two-dot-oh of the two-dot-screens handheld got a North Am release date this week, and there was much rejoicing. The news partially stole thunder from the SFIV release (OMG) and GTA DLC (ORLY) drops. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by WayByWind: what exactly is the point of putting a camera on a ds? 12 Responses | Other threads
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Kotaku Originals: You Take That Back Brian Crecente
The boss-mans learned a important lesson about other people's feelings when he called Wii Fit a wee fad. Indignant Wii Fitters ultrabombed his inbox to say not everyone who "plays" it looks like this. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by BubbleF**kingBuddy: It's nice to see that Sony revolutionized the industry with this idea. [en.wikipedia.org] If only it worked out well for them. 17 Responses | Other threads
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Kotaku Originals: Broken Record
Not the good kind either, the roid-infused home run record kind. I mean the old-school "broken record" which repeats the same phrase until you lift the needle. In this case: Workers fired, business sucks. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by kyle4: It was a good week here with posts, aside from all the news about firings. That was disappointing news. I sent... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Have Video Games Gotten More Violent?
This article on GamesRadar has me wondering if violence in video games has gotten more intense – or is it just more vivid as a result of technology making blood brighter and guts more realistic. More »
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By AJ GlasserComment by bableebooblah-new and improved.: Well, nintendo started out by an italian plumber eating shrooms and stomping turtles. 10 Responses | Other threads
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People Magazine Plugs Atari, Snubs Nintendo in “Celebrate the ‘80s!”
The latest special issue of People celebrates the Atari 2600 as the console that “ruled the interactive gaming world” in the 1980s – no mention of the original Nintendo, Sega Master System or even Coleco Vision. -
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Kotaku Originals: Fo Shizzle My Nintizzle
So Nintendo learned there are other powerful words that begin with "Ni" and by that I don't mean nickel, nor "nimrod," though one surely was fired following this week’s Animal Crossing racial epithet grabass. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by Clarke: I for one, as an African American, am not offended by the word "nigga". 5 Responses | Other threads
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Kotaku Originals: Out of Nothing at All
Well awright. First Luke decided to be cute with the Far Cry 2 review and lay down some massive Toto beats in his loved/hated for that game. Then on Friday, McMike came right back and titled his Resistance 2 review after REO Speedwagon's cut-off-your-nuts romance ballad, the go-to mixtape track timed perfectly for pulling off under the overpass with your date to the Winter Sports Dance. Well boom, bitches, I see your overproduced vocals and raise you a manperm with friggin' Air Supply in the headline, apropos of nothing at all. Be glad I didn't go all Chicago on your asses in my MotorStorm review, or else Kotaku would be overrun by commenters swooning like loveless dental assistants caught up listening to the lite rock during a teeth cleaning. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by Brian Crecente: OH, and hey, what about my tribute to This is Spinal Tap in MY review. NO respect, NO respect at all... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Impressions: Prince of Persia
While dodging outsized cosplay swords and errant catgirls at the London MCM Expo over the weekend, I was lucky enough to get a hands-on with the most recent build of Prince of Persia.
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Comment by J.D.: Now I'm excited. I've always loved PoP's combat system. 5 Responses | Other threads
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Game Over – Art of the Gamer Generation
Giant Robot specializes in “Asian American Pop Culture & Beyond,” which means that this is the store to go to to score obscure figurines, bizarre stationary and the ultimate Hello Kitty accessories. This month, Giant Robot is also the place to go for video game art.
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Blizzcon 2008 Round-Up
BlizzCon 2008 has come and gone. We've laughed, cried, loved, learned, and broken expensive props. For those of you who lost track of BlizzCon amidst the whirlwind Tokyo Game Show weekend, here's the final round up of all the stories spawned from Blizzard's yearly celebration of all things them.
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By Mike FaheyComment by Eviscerate: Be careful Fahey, alot of those Blood Elves you think are female, are probably dudes. Blood Elves are to horde... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Vicarious Visions Talks Guitar Hero: World Tour Wii
And here I thought I knew everything. My brother’s name is Nathaniel – so I should be able to spell Nathaniels, right? Wrong! Vicarious Visions’s David Nathanielsz has a freaking “z” on the end. And don’t you forget it. More »
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By AJ GlasserComment by scy1192: I'd like to see another DragonForce song in GH. Through the Fire and Flames was *the* song to play in... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Neversoft on Guitar Hero: World Tour
While it’s exciting to document the inner workings of gaming genius or uncover some deep-seated scandal, most game game developer interviews feature a PR handler whose job it is to keep said developer from saying anything too cool/secret/incriminating. Thus, most interviews – especially ones that take place after a game is announced but not detailed – devolve into nebulous awkward silences. No matter what you ask, they give you some canned answer that doesn’t tell you anything and you’re stuck asking stock questions from the getting-to-know list your second grade teacher made you fill out.
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By AJ GlasserComment by lazlo_chatter: "Moreover, Brian doesn't know of any artists that have exclusive deals with Rock Band or with Guitar Hero, so beloved... 13 Responses | Other threads
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Interview - Haden Blackman, Force Unleashed Front Man
You owe Force Unleashed to Haden Blackman. He may be all modest about the team effort that went into making this game over the last four years – but this is the guy that held the hands of the entire team and reminded them what Force Unleashed is all about: kicking the shit out of people with the Force (or "kicking butt," if you like the vanilla version they kept chanting in all those developer diaries).
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By AJ GlasserComment by Madgame: I wouldn't mind playing as a wookie....I'm sure alot of other fans would too. 'Ol GL is out of touch... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Kotaku Originals: World of Sporelore
So it's been so long since I've done this (not really, but feels like it) that last night, honest to God, nothankyou.jpg invaded my dreams. That's why it's riding shotgun here. But it also illustrated our Tecmo/Squenix coverage of the preceding week, one highlight among the usual storm of rumor and outrage. Spore's DRM and Amazon's response to the review bombing accounted for the latter; and unsmashed whispering about a Christmas list of freebies in a 360 relaunch accounted for the former. Here is the week that was in original reporting, highlights below, full list on the jump. More »
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By Owen GoodComment by LittleBigPlaneteer: I'd like to take this opportunity to say I like the Tales of Vesperia theme on the main page, because... 6 Responses | Other threads
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Mega Man 9 - Winging It
I’ll tell you a secret: I got kicked out of arts and crafts in fourth grade. I was too busybeating upflirting with Patrick McHellen to pay attention to stuff like glue sticks and foldable tabs. More »
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By AJ GlasserComment by CaptLtrl: Who preferred that tripod monstrosity N64 controller over the SNES pad? Not me! 5 Responses | Other threads
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PAX Panel: How To Get Your Girlfriend Into Gaming
Just for the record, readers, I’m here as a Plebeian (and I heart that word) – with a normal three-day pass I paid for with my own hard-earned money. I’m also hanging out with three friends and am subject to what they want to do, not what I want to cover. I have not once pulled rank as a Kotaku correspondent to score free shit or get into crowded events (okay, maybe once, but that was for The Conduit, which you can read about tomorrow). More »
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By AJ GlasserComment by Shrinkydinks: I have to agree that chicks have problems sometimes with playing stuff online because of the trash talking. I played... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Kotaku Originals: The Cool Sub
Good morning class. Your cool substitute teacher Owen is here to let you goof off and get away with shit that Mr. Crecente doesn't allow. For the next two days anyway. Just so long as you keep your spitwads and paper airplanes away from me. More »
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